Jiang Longtan and Brother Lu Chao are discussing countermeasures, and several local gentry in Tongcheng are also planning the next move in the secret room, Zhang Tingyu's nephew Zhang Ruoji is the first, and now Zhang Tingyu's sons are all officials in Beijing, and the Zhang family in Tongcheng is currently headed by him.

These people did not take the occupation of Anhui by the Red Flower Society in their hearts, since ancient times, they only have the reason to immediately win the world and not immediately rule the world, no matter how strong the military strength of the Red Flower Society is, to govern the country is not to rely on them These scholars, from the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties to the previous Qing Dynasty, it is better to obediently obey the orders of the Red Flower Society first, and when the imperial examination is reopened, it will be their world again, maybe because of their reputation, they can be recruited by the imperial court to become officials without exams.

But after waiting for so long, no one came to find them out of the mountain, and the imperial examination did not start, but the notice of recruiting civil servants was posted outside the gate of the Tongcheng City Government and at the entrances of various city gates. They thought it was just a variant of the imperial examination, and they were gearing up to do a big job, but when they bought back the "Civil Service Examination Guide", they were dumbfounded.

This administrative aptitude test seems to them to be completely heavenly! Not to mention that they are all vulgar characters, these questions are arranged from left to right, and the test questions in them have nothing to do with what they have learned before; Looking at the argument again, at first I thought it was not much different from the policy theory, but when I looked at the sample article, the answer was all in the vernacular, and there was not a single word of the saint in the article, how did this happen!

"This is to dig up our roots!" , Zhang Ruoji sighed at the time, if he took these exams, wouldn't his group have to learn again like those hairy boys? This and that will do! So he immediately gathered the principals of the major families in Tongcheng to conspire and discuss, trying to make the Red Flower Society reinstate the Eight Shares of Scholars.

In the final analysis, these people do not want to lose the superior position that has lasted for thousands of years, their superior position comes from Confucianism, and now that the imperial court does not rely on Confucianism to recruit officials, the foundation of their family's glory is empty, how can they not resist?

Chen Jialuo was not unaware at the beginning that these old-style literati would rebel. I am still thinking about whether to slow down this matter first, but these problems will have to be solved sooner or later, so it is better to solve them as soon as possible, while there are not many middle-level and high-level old-style literati in the Red Flower Society, it is more convenient to solve it, and it is not easy to wait for these people to slowly climb up!

In this regard, Chen Jialuo specially took out this issue for a separate analysis at the training classes for prefects and county officials in various localities, and demanded that these local officials must pay attention to this matter. After that, although some small problems emerged in various places, either the literary style was not flourishing, and the scholars were scarce and there were no major problems, or the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang generally benefited from the industrialization process of the Red Flower Society and did not want to resist.

"Please also ask Zhang Weng to come up with a strategy, what should we do next? Did you carry the saint's tablet to the government to block the door as before? An old man asked, it seems that they have not done this kind of thing before.

"This law doesn't work!" , Before plotting this matter, Zhang Ruoji had already inquired carefully about the various deeds of the Red Flower Society, "I was in Fujian before. Some people have done this, but they have been taken down by all those who are rebellious, and these people do not care about the tablet of the saint. ”

"What Zhang Weng said is extremely true!" , another person agreed, "I heard that the Red Flower Society actually engraved the name of the descendant of the saint on the traitor tablet and ranked it with Zhongxing Shuo, Qin Hui, Zhang Yuan and others, it is really true", he really didn't find a suitable word to describe this matter for a long time, so he had to shake his head to show surprise.

"This Chinese dynasty only values bravery. Despise the literati, I'm afraid it's a tyranny again! In my opinion, this Chinese dynasty will end up in two generations at most! ”。 This person was quite dissatisfied with the fact that there were not many literati on the hero monument.

"It's far away, let's talk about what to do?" , Zhang Ruoji said dissatisfiedly, discussing things with these people is troublesome, and you may be dragged 108,000 miles away at any time.

"Zhang Weng, it's not appropriate for us to come forward. But you can let someone else come forward! Even if we don't have the imperial examination, we can always live comfortably by relying on our family's property, but those poor literati can't, and their grievances are greater than ours if the imperial examination is broken, right? A thief-eyed man had an idea. Let's let them fight in the front, if the Red Flower Society doesn't dare to do it, we will go again, if the Red Flower will kill the killer, we will hype up the tyranny of the Red Flower Society! ”

"This plan is very good, we don't have to take risks, how Honghua will deal with it will fall into our calculations!" , Zhang Ruoji immediately high-fived and praised, "This matter will be handed over to Brother Tai!" ”

"It's not enough for these poor literati, we have to stir up the price of rice, grain, salt and oil in the city!" Seeing that someone was appreciated, someone immediately spoke enthusiastically, "When the people are restless, let's incite these people to make trouble, and see how he responds!" ”

"Hmm!" , Zhang Ruoji touched his beard, "But we still have to control the degree, we can't let Tongcheng really mess up, and when Jiang Longtan is at a loss, let's come forward to appease the people of Shizi, and when Jiang Longtan understands that we still have the final say in the land of Tongcheng, he will know what to do!" ”

"You can't help him for nothing!" , someone added, "We have to let the imperial court reopen the imperial examination, so that the wealth of our families can last for a long time!" ”

"I'm afraid a prefect can't be such a big master, right?" , someone asked hesitantly.

"Of course the prefect can't do it, but as long as he hands it over!" , Zhang Ruoji explained, "We people have a wide range of contacts, and when we get on the fold, we will contact all over the world and release the news, and the scholars in other places are not vegetarians, and we will definitely follow the action if we become here, and when the time comes, all provinces will ask for orders at the same time, can he dare to go against the will of the people?" ”

"Zhang Weng is right!"

"Zhang Weng's eyes are like torches, I can't wait!"

"Let's look at Zhang Weng's strategy, the red flower will collapse"

The words of praise don't seem to be sent with money, and Zhang Ruoji can be comforted physically and mentally.

After a few more days, even though Fang Yan, Lu Chaoge and others visited their homes everywhere, they did not persuade a single student to return, but five more students quietly never came again.

When everyone was restless, the poor scholars of the entire Tongcheng suddenly gathered together, and drove towards Tongcheng Middle School, shouting words such as protecting the Holy School and misleading the children of Tongcheng Middle School, and there were more and more people along the way; At the same time, rice shops all over Tongcheng hung out signs of selling out, and the people suddenly panicked. (To be continued......)